While not perfect, the Hot 100 gives an adequate picture of the most popular songs at any given moment and has adjusted its criteria over time to account for changes in how Americans listen to music. Right now the list is derived from radio airplay, sales, and streaming data. Starting in 1958, Billboard has published the charts each week, ranking singles on a shifting list of criteria. The Hot 100 charts are a general measure of a song's popularity. Josh Rosenblat/Vox Longevity in the music industry is fleeting, an aspect that impacts artists from different eras and genres differently I found that top artists can survive for upward of two decades - but that staying power varies significantly by genre and time period. To get a better idea of which musicians have had the most staying power, I analyzed the weeks between the top 50 Billboard artists' first and last "peak" in the Hot 100, with peaks referring to the date a song reached its highest point in the Hot 100.
And since she made her US chart debut in early 2009 with "Chasing Pavements," Adele has stayed at or near the top of the music world. Unlike other awards, the Billboard Awards are determined strictly by chart performance, rather than a vote from a guild, for example. Adele, the 28-year-old British pop star, overtook some of the top names in pop music this weekend - Drake, Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber, the Weeknd - taking the Top Artist award at Sunday's Billboard Music Awards.
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